The group doesn’t possess a sure-fire selection unlike a year ago with Gordon. The 6-3, 225-pound Baylor product arrived in Berea with potential and baggage – flashing both in his first year as a Brown.

Gordon emerged as the club’s deep threat with 50 receptions for 805 yards, five touchdowns and 16.1 yard average. He also earned a two-game ban to start this season for failing a league drug test. Gordon said codeine in prescription cough medicine triggered a positive. (The league does not reveal the drug.) He tested positive for marijuana three times in college.

Gordon cost the Browns a second-round pick in April’s draft, a fair price assuming he can remain clean. No team will offer a high pick for one of this year’s supplemental candidates. The two receivers, Pearce and Ross, have outside shots at getting drafted.

Pearce (5-11, 190), academically ineligible this season, caught 54 passes for 602 yards and two touchdowns last year at Houston. Ross (5-10, 180), suspended indefinitely for violating team rules, grabbed 56 passes for 474 yards and two TDs last season at Purdue.

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